#Tron circuits

[fights4users]

I think everyone would be a little less willing to tear eachother apart in legacy if they had a healthy amount of circuitry. There’s a whole lot wrong with the grid and I do think this is one of them, as I ascribe to the camp of circuits being a part of a program and helping them regulate and process etc

The grid and its programs run hot… literally.

Discuss

[nocek]

ipad baby reinvents a poke the bear game :P

[murderbees]

The City Breathes with You

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I played Disco Elysium and neurons fired, I like the idea of Isos being connected to the grid on a deep level, like the whole "knock on the sky and listen to the sound" and Disco Elysium does that sometimes so this came to be

I feel like it could be more glowy but I'm happy with it, messing with the color levels and effects was really fun

[qyrhan]

Roleswap au with programs by the names of Tru and Clon is this anything do you guys want a role reversal au

[do not repost my art to other sites]

[what-bot]

Able: All these young programs complaining about travel time. Back when I was in beta, we had to sideload 98 nanometres to work every millicycle, uphill in the snow both ways!

Beck: Snow only forms in low-activity areas though, how was it snowing in the middle of the city?

Able: Are you questioning your elders? The city was just founded, it hadn't warmed up yet.

[astercontrol]

Remembering how certain Programs in the original Tron movie have much more complex circuitry on the back (and butt) part of their Unitards compared to other Programs who have far less complex back circuits, what is your explanation(s)/headcanon(s) on how they gained them?

Hmm! Well, the first comparison that comes to mind is between the Warrior programs like Tron, and the dock workers like Yori:

Clearly Yori's circuits are much simpler and more minimalistic, and Tron's are vastly complex. This seems to go for others in their respective lines of assigned work, too-- the other programs working on the Solar Sailer dock with Yori, and the other warriors fighting alongside Tron.

At first one might be tempted to think it's something about what kind of programs they are. Yori, as her intended purpose, is part of the laser's programming, and thus very connected to the User world; her name appears on the screen each time the laser activates. She is perhaps the only program we see having something that resembles a graphic user interface.

...And no, in this case when I say "graphic user interface" I do NOT mean explicit sex scenes between Program and User. I mean the specific WAY that the Program/User sex happens. (Contact between Program and User is a sex thing for most programs, in my headcanon. But to be honest, the kind without a graphic user interface seems more intimate to me, personally.)

Tron, designed as a security monitor, is meant to do his work behind the scenes, several levels removed from any User except his own.

So, one tempting interpretation is that Tron just happens to have especially exposed "backend code."

Which is a term I half-jokingly use for his nice ass-- but in programming it refers to the code that happens behind the scenes, not visible in the software's user-interface. If that does in fact "manifest" as the circuitry on Tron's literal back end, it might indicate that he doesn't have much of a GUI-- and instead wears all his code out in the open, like his heart on his sleeve, untranslated into anything but its most direct meaning.

But I hesitate to jump to that conclusion. Because that would mean the simplicity of Yori's coworkers-- and the complexity of Tron's fellow soldiers-- is very close to uniform, across the board.

And I don't think that's how they naturally are.

I think most programs at Encom are custom-written for their purposes, each in the idiosyncratic style of their own programmer-- and thus, in their natural state, they'd have a huge amount of diversity.

So I lean toward the assumption that the dock workers got simple circuits and the warriors got complex circuits because that was how the MCP decided to dress them, and their "true" form has more individual variation.

Now, why would the MCP make that decision? I don't imagine him having much in the way of aesthetic preferences-- his focus is on efficiency.

So I think the most likely explanation is that the density of circuits all over the back of a warrior program has something to do with connecting to the weaponized Identity Disc that the warriors were forced to use in fights.

Yori and her colleagues were never shown to have discs. Now, I personally theorize that they did have them, but not weaponized ones-- just simple data discs for updates and backups-- and they were not allowed to carry them when at work.

(I've written elsewhere about the idea that this is why Yori was so zombie-like when Tron found her-- it had been a long work shift, she hadn't gotten to sync with her disc in a long time, and her identity was starting to fade. Intentional or not, this ties in very neatly to the related plotline in TRON: Uprising-- where Tron can be seen doing for Beck exactly what he did for Yori in that scene-- shaking her out of her disc-deprived daze by giving her a familiar face to focus on.)

So, that may explain why Yori and her colleagues weren't considered to need complex back circuits, and warriors like Tron were.

It doesn't, however, explain the way Tron's complex back circuits extend right down into the butt crack.

Out of universe, I have a scandalous little suspicion that this part of the costume was originally on the front, and was changed because it accentuated the front just too perfectly.

I have only one piece of evidence for that, but it's a compelling one: a picture I found of an original warrior costume up for auction.

...Yeah. Holy Dickbutt.

But.

Anyway.

As for an in-universe explanation?

Hmm.

it's possible that the butt section of that circuitry is all part of the same mechanism, and does the same thing the rest of it does.

Evidence for that: we do see it all light up simultaneously, when Tron is being forced to fight in the Games:

And yet-- strangely enough-- it's the only part of his circuit array that didn't light up when he drank from the energy pool.

I have no idea why that would be-- I mean, besides "someone in post-production decided that energy pool scene was already too horny without Tron's ass glowing."

Are the butt circuits added specifically as a modification to augment the weaponized use of the Identity Disc?

Do they only glow when the Disc is being used for violence?

...and not when Tron is happy, and at peace, and getting intimate with his loved ones??

....Huh.

Who'd have known Tron had an ass that was made specially for ass-kicking.

[skleech]

the way I got whiplash drawing all these characters together on the same canvas like hey wait a minute why is sachiel driving tha bus 🤨

[fights4users]

Anyone know why for Legacy the primary circuit color became white?

In the original it’s explained (implied in film, explicit in novelization and other materials) blue is user believer and red is the elite, it’s controlled by the MCP except for the occasional free programs.

It makes sense for on the grid the main bad guy colors to go from Red to Orange as orange has always been Clu’s coloring.

But white is unexplained? It also adds to my “bland Sci fi” criticism on the aesthetics and legacy as a whole. You look my in the eyes and tell me Kevin Flynn would design something so generic. This is the man who made space paranoids and a lot of the games that shaped the original. I’m just saying

The white circuits even expand to Tron, I don’t think he ever had blue on the grid? Maybe at first but I don’t think so (at least movie wise)

[lambda-core]

red jet looks different every time i draw him ngl but i really wanted the "game model jet + sark" influences to be a clear with this one

[iorepairs]

A poem about Sark, made with screengrabs from (of all places) Dunkey's Tetris video.

[paradimeart]

can you guys help me troubleshoot the apps on my computer would rather beat the shit out of each other than communicate

[qyrhan]

Current concept for Rhys’ 82 gridsuit. I imagine she was placed into the Disc Games rather than the lacrosse style game like Flynn was.

[murderbees]

[measlyscrapofseafood]

cover that guy thing in blood

[evecolourshock]

Painting a bag, this is the front pocket. I love it, but also ow my hand.

And the back, all drawn out and ready for painting.

Not sure what I'm going to do around the pocket, maybe the outline of Tron's Uprising circuits??

[fights4users]

What are some good computing terms to incorporate into Tron works? There’s a lot that influences the language and objects of canon and game works, however there’s still more out there. Stuff that’d be good for both program biology, general speak and world building. I don’t know a thing about programming or computers in general so if you have some good terms and computer related stuff you use in works, want to be used or think would be neat to start using please Lemme know!